Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany

Christina Brauner is a professor of Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History at the University of Tübingen. She specializes in the history of West and West Central Africa before 1800, diplomatic and economic history and history of religion.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Globalizing Early Modern GermanyChristina Brauner, Renate Dürr, Philip Hahn, Anne Sophie Overkamp, and Simon SiemianowskiPart I: Mobility: Moving and BelongingChapter 1. Their Last Days in Europe. Germans on the Amsterdam VOC Fleet of 1775Jelle van Lottum and Lodewijk PetramChapter 2. Between Beutelsbach and Batavia: A Cooper’s Career and His Involvement in Colonial ViolencePhilip HahnChapter 3. Encountering Opportunities: Inheritances, Knowledge Gaps, and Invented Global Connections in the German “Hinterland”Lukas WisselChapter 4. Between Slavery and Exoticism: People of Color at the Dresden CourtRebekka von MallinckrodtPart II: Globality: The World of the HometownChapter 5. Bringing the World to German Home Towns? Lutheran Baptisms in the Context of Abduction and SlaveryRenate DürrChapter 6. Two Inventories – Two Braunschweigs: Hometown Germans and the Eighteenth-Century Slave EconomyEve RosenhaftChapter 7. Encountering the Middle East in Early Modern Germany: A Prince of Palestine in Nuremberg, 1778–1779Tobias P. GrafChapter 8. A Small Town in Germany and Its Global Dis:connectionsAnne Sophie OverkampChapter 9. Putting the Hanse on the Map: The Civitates Orbs Terrarum (1572–1617) as a Mediated Global EncounterSuzie HermánPart III: Materiality: Local Tastes for the GlobalChapter 10. Global Goods, Familiar Strangers, and Some Local Knowledge of the World: A View from the German-Dutch Borderlands, ca. 1700Christina BraunerChapter 11. Global Food in Southwestern Germany around 1770Daniel MenningChapter 12. Reading Materials: Gift Exchanges between Sonora, Spain, and LucerneSimon SiemianowskiChapter 13. Global Itineraries, Curative Effects, and Sacred Scents: Eaglewood Rosaries in Early Modern German Material CultureAnne MarissChapter 14. Colonial Objects in the Cabinet of Curiosities? Christoph Weickmann’s “Outlandish Things” in UlmKim SiebenhünerPart IV: Going Beyond: Perspectives and AgendasConclusion: German Global Microhistory, or: The How and The WhyUlrike StrasserAppendix 6.1Appendix 6.2Index